Stand for hot-water tanks



C. A. ANDERSON. STAND FOR HOT WATER TANKS'.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. I2, I920.-

' Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CARL ARTHUR ANDERSON, 0F WATEIBJLOU, IOWA.

STAND FOR HUTWVATER TANKS.

Application filed January 12, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL An'rnt'n AN DER- son, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackliawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stands for HotWVater Tanks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stands for hot water tanks, boilers and the like, and the object of my improvement isto supply a sectional stand therefor of a simple and inexpensive construction, easily assembled or disassembled, and provided with a self-adjusting clamping head.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are elevations of a hot water tank. taken respectively at an angle of ninety degrees from each other, showing the tank supported upon my sectional stand, with parts of both sectioned vertically and centrally. Fig. 3 shows enlarged separated perspective views of the elements of my improved stand, with part of the clamping head broken away.

In said drawings, similar numerals of reference denote like parts throughout the sev-- eral views.

The numeral. 12 denotes a hot water tank oi upright cylindrical. form with downwardly convexed bottom 13 having a central depending pipe or nipple 14: connected to a horizontal pipe by an elbow-coupling 15. The form of the tank is immaterial, as my improved stand is applicable to support any type of tank or boiler of this class.

My improved stand is essentially constructed of three co-mating parts secured detachably and in a self-centered relation by means about to be described.

These parts are a pair of like mating supporting elements, and a clamping head fitting thereupon. The supporting elements are castings, each of the shape shown in Fi 3, vertically longitudinally troughed, so that when fitted matingly together as shown in the other figures. their interior hollow opens at the top and bottom, and is of different shapes and dimensions along its extent. The basal parts 1 of these elements when con joined is conoidal, but may be of any other shape which will assure a [firing support. Above this base, the elements form a cylinder Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 350,933.

with central hollow 3, the semi-cylindrical parts having horizontally alined bolt-holes t to receive a bolt 16 secured by a nut 17.

Above the cylindrical part 2, the elements are widened laterally in one direction at 5 to provide a laterally widened hollow (l which opens laterally in a direction at a right angle to said widening. 4

The top parts 7 of the supporting elements are exteriorly conoidal and have the central cylindrical hollow 8.

The numeral 9 denotes a cup-shaped clamping head whose bottom is formed with a hollow raised part 10, the inner wall of .the hollow of the part 10 being conoidal,

and adapted to fit and matingly self-adjustingly clamp the conoidal halves 7 of the sup porting elements together in a self-centered relation.

When these elements are secured together by the bolt 16, the conoidal parts 7 clamped by the clamping head 9, the upper edge of the cupped part of said head engagingly sustains the bottom 13 of the tank 12 contrally, the nipple 1 L depending through the head and the communicating hollow 8 of the parts 7 and into the widened interspace 6 of the parts 5, this widened interspace affording room for the angle-coupling 15, which latter is also supported on the shoulder where the parts 5 close together below it. The head part 10 fits upon the conoidal parts 7 in a self-centered relation. clamping them and holding them securely because of the superincumbent weight. All these elements are easily assembled, need no machining, and are automatically self-centered and adjusted.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A device of the character described,

comprising a pair of supporting elements.

3. A clerics of the character described,

comprising a pair of like mating supporting elements having a longitudinal Vertical hollow, and the middle parts ofsaid elements being laterally widened to provide a wider interspace opening at opposite sides, and means for detachably securing said elements together. 7 V

4:. A device of the character described, comprising supporting elements, means for securing them together detachably, and a head-block hollowed. to fit upon said supporting elements clampingly and self-adjustingly. V

5. A device of the character described, comprising a vpair of like supporting elements, vertically longitudinally tronghed to form within them when mated a hollow of varied widths, the upper part of the combined structure being conoidal, the part llllmediately below it widened laterally in one direction and having lateral openings in a direction at a right angle thereto, the lower part of the elements terminating in a widened base, and a head-body of cup-shape, having a basal hollow of conoidal term adapted to seat it clampingly and self-adjustingly upon and about the conoidal top 0 l the supporting elements.

Signed at llaterloo, Iowa, this 10th day of December, 1919.

CARL ARTHUR- ANDERSON. 

